The Portland daily press., 1887-09-14
the DeArH ROLL.
News from the Banks that Will make
Sad Hearts.
Vessels Bottom UP and Crews who
will Never Come Home.
Sharks pevour the Bodies Of a
Wrecked Vessels Crew.
Especial 10 the Press. |

HALIFAX. Sept 13.-Captain Goodich of
the schooner Willie MCGOWAN at Shelbourne
from the Grand Banks, says there there will
be hundreds of sad hearts In New England
and the Provinces when the fisherman's
muster roll is called this season. While off
Liverpool yesterday, he spoke the banker
Georgia Harold, whose skipper. Captain Ly-
ons, reported having passed many capsized
vessels on his way heme from the banks,
whose crews must have perished du ring the
great storm. Captain Lyons says that one
of the most heart rending spectacles he ever
witnessed on "that race course of the winds,
the Grand Banks" was that presented on
board the battered hulk of a fishing vessel
which was thrown upon her beam ends by
the violence of the sea, and was aimlessly
drifting at the will of the wild waves. Skip
per Lyons boarded the craft with difficulty.
but found no sign of life about her decks.
Peering down the skylight Of the cabin.
which was out of water, he beheld a sicken-
ing sight. A number of dead fishermen
were floating about in the wash of the sea
while several small sharks were tearing their
limbs asunder and feeding yoraciously on
their flesh. The sight made Lyons blood
freeze, but he could render no assistance in
rescuing the bodies, nor could he get them
out of the cabin and sink them in the ocean.
He was compelled to leave them a prey to
the ravenous sharks. This skipper says
that not one-half of the disasters resulting
from the storm has yet been reported.
The Provincetown schooner Charles III.
Hodgson, at Liverpool, which lost her jib-
boom and sails in the hurricane Ct the 26th
ult, and whose captain died from the effects
of exposure and injuries received, will pro-
ceed home to repair. The body of Captain
Campbell win be shipped home for inter-
ment
Adyices from st. Pierre Miquelon, give
the details of terrible disasters which over
took the French fishing fleet in the gales Of
the Goth, 9th and 29th ult., and the 3rd inst
One hundred vessels were demoralized and
fifty lives were lost. Scores of fishermen
were also seriously injured, many having
arms and legs broken. The schooner St.
Pierre was lost with all hands.
The fishing season has ended disastrously
to the French fleet, the catch is one-third be-
low that of last year. The losses of the
gear, etc, incurred during the gale were
enormous, added to which is the fact that
the distressed vessels lose the month Of Sep
TENDERS fishing These things have COM
bined to already advance the price Of Goldfish
fifteen per cent at st. Pierre.
lBy Associated Press.l
st. Pierre Miquelon advices state that dis
asters during the great gales are still report
ed daily. The schooner st. Pierre was
passed bottom up. Her icrew Of 16 men are
all lost. The vessels heard from TO the pres
ent time, belonging to the French.cod fishing
feet, report loss of fifty lives. One hun
dred vessels are demoralized and have with
drawn from the fisheries, thus losing the
September fishing. This will decrease the
seasons catch 200C0 quintals. In conse-
quence, prices have already advanced Is per
cent.
SHELBuRNE, N. S., Sept. 13-She schooner
Willie MCGOWAN. from Banquero, brings
word OF schooner supposed TO be the Ocean
Bride, of Boston. She was seen drifting
helplessly and was boarded. The decom-
posed bodies Of several men were floating in
the cabin.